Sure, but also Pym is dumbing down his explanations for Scott, because he thinks Scott is a moron. The exact functioning of Pym particles isn’t at all clear.

It would be like if Superman could tear his S emblem off his chest and throw it at bad guys like a giant cellophane net. Or if Superman could fly fast enough to spin the Earth backwards and reverse time.

Or like if Hulk could be stopped by some crazy loud directional speakers.

Super powers and weaknesses are, and always have been, entirely plot dependent. Vision can phase because he can phase. The explanation that Vision can control his own density makes zero sense. That could make him float, but it wouldn’t make him fly sideways, and it certainly wouldn’t allow him to pass through solid matter. Air is not very dense, but it doesn’t pass through solid stone. The physics of Starlord and Gamora in space make no sense. Groot makes no sense. Yondu’s arrow makes no sense.

Ant-Man can shrink and punch a dude because he can shrink and punch a dude. The only problem is they tried to explain it like it’s science.

The physics never make sense. Iron Man should be a pink smoothie in a can. Hulk generates mass from nothing and sheds it back to nothing when he changes. Spiderman should be pulling drywall off the studs. Vibranium makes zero sense, either as a shield or as a suit or really any other time. 90% of the fighting Hawkeye and Black Widow do is absurd and would leave their bones shattered.

Thor is all magic, so that gets a pass, but you can’t throw a hammer and the get dragged behind it, and then change directions midair. Thor is flying because magic, let’s just leave it at that.

And it’s not just the MCU. Superman can’t catch a plane by the nose. Batman can’t launch a grapple hook while he’s falling and prevent his death.

Aragorn can’t toss Gimli that far. Luke’s X-Wing doesn’t bank through air in space. The USS Enterprise wouldn’t always be oriented to be upright with everything. James Bond can’t just recover from all those concussions and venereal diseases without brain damage. Indy can’t ride out a nuclear explosion in a fridge.

I didn’t mind the Marvels. I thought it had problems, and parts were cringy if you’re not into it. But the biggest flaw was the writing. It’s like they had these ideas for set pieces, and then tried to bring it all together as an afterthought. It wasn’t as bad as certain people wanted it to be.

Quantumania was unfinished. It was like they ran out of money and time and just submitted the minimally viable movie. Paul Rudd is always charming, and the actress playing Cassie/Stature is going to be a net plus to the Young Avengers. I think Michelle Pfeiffer was poorly utilized, and of course Kang became a PR problem. But the writing had some high points. The story was engaging, the stakes were real, and the characters all had arcs. The CG was shit, and the Giant Goof schtick is overplayed. Letting go of the physics is a prerequisite for any Superhero movie.

They did poorly because Disney was rushing. They wanted to generate energy and enthusiasm by deliberately releasing each new movie before the last one was available on streaming. But instead of creating fomo, they fostered indifference because the product wasn’t good enough. Nothing post-endgame felt like must-watch content. The tie-ins were half-assed, because the studio clearly did not have faith that they would ever get to wrap up each dangling plot thread.

The Marvels was better than Eternals. Quantumania was better than Wakanda Forever. None of them are great movies, but none are as bad as anti-woke or anti-superhero critics suggest.

Like drink the beer, and then flip the horse.

That was the first thing he did. You might have trust issues.

Except then I don’t share anything with my friends and slowly lose them anyway because I’m boring.

Imagine living in a time when you weren’t sure if eating a moldy piece of fruit was going to make you experience euphoric hallucinations or violently ill. I’d probably believe in gods, too, while we all figured out the pattern.

Carpetbagging Idaho state senator…

Ok, Trump and Giuliani are lecherous creeps and at least one of them is a rapist. I’m not defending them in any way.

But it’s not weird to have a type, and if you have kids with someone who is that type, your daughter is going to look a little like her mom. I’d bet if you compared the mistresses of creepy shitbags to their adult daughters, you’d see a lot of similarities.

Many thanks!

I don’t think North Koreans get the same idealistic Western propaganda we do. Hopefully, it’s tailored to the audience by people familiar with the North Korean zeitgeist.

Anybody have a link to the image? Article is paywalled.

Two things can be true. War crimes from 60 years ago don’t justify modern despotism.

I’m guessing that OP took the community name, monero.town, and assumed that meant Monero is a town. I’m not sure what the scam here is, if the post is maybe AI generated, or somebody is building a posting history for some reason. Reddit has a problem with that, because usernames with history, even nonsensical history, have value. But I don’t think Lemmy has the same problem yet.

History is written by the victors, sort of.

Nah.

I don’t begrudge her campaign. Making noise on the national level is a good way to elevate the message and slowly undo the demonization of socialism. It’s her supporters acting like Harris is the same as Trump that chap my ass.

You should cross post this here:

The Truth About Tim Walz

It’d be a lot cooler if you did.

Trunk space, I think. Extended range batteries can replace trunk space, and a hatchback form factor would still allow for some storage. A sedan is the worst of all averages. A small trunk may as well not exist at all.